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Monday, December 16, 2019
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are an integral part of the transportation industry, and more and more students are becoming advanced GIS specialists. Meet one such student, Kyle Chin, now a recent graduate of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), who has successfully started his career at Esri, a GIS technology company with offices across the nation, as a desktop analyst.
Chin completed a Master of Science in Geographic Information Science this past Fall. His Professor ...
Sunday, December 15, 2019
We are thrilled to feature Joceline Suhaimi - a 4th-year undergraduate student from UCLA with impressive accomplishments. Suhaimi is the current President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) at UCLA and an Executive Assistant at UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies.
Suhaimi is a UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering major, with a minor in Urban Planning minor. She believes that transportation is a basic human need, and she remembers that she first became interested ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
In Spring 2019, the USC Price Offices of Development and of Career Services presented a new summer fellowship program to commemorate the 90th anniversary of USC Price School of Public Policy. Names the Public-Private Partnership (P3) Fellows Program, it was designed as a high-impact career development initiative to provide substantive work and mentorship for student Fellows during Summer and Fall 2019.The program fully-funded ten Price Masters and upper level Undergraduate students to pursue private ...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
In February 2019, the Office of Development and the Office of Career Services presented a new fellowship program to commemorate the 90th anniversary of USC Price School of Public Policy. The Public-Private Partnership (P3) Fellows Program was designed as a high-impact career development initiative that provides substantive work and mentorship for the selected Fellows during Summer and Fall 2019. The program fully-funded 10 Price Masters and upper-level undergraduate students to pursue private and ...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Reaghan Murphy is a first-year Master of Urban Planning student at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at University of Southern California (USC) who has joined METRANS as a Student Director of the METRANS Mentor Program.
Murphy was born in New York and grew up just outside of Philadelphia, PA. She graduated from the University of South Carolina (UofSC) Honors College in Columbia, SC, with a B.A. in Global Studies, a B.S. in Geography, and minors in Environmental Studies and Spanish. She remembers ...
Monday, November 18, 2019
On Tuesday, September 24 th , in the USC Doheny Memorial Library, students, staff, faculty, and practitioners enjoyed the first professional development workshop of the fall semester, a lunch and learn with Dr. Rebecca Weintraub of the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, who shared her tips for and perspective on the importance of mentoring.
Dr. Weintraub is a veteran communicator with three decades of professional experience in communication, facilitation, ...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
On October 9, METRANS researcher and Long Beach State University Professor Mohammad Mozumdar shared the results of his ongoing research on development of a lightweight low-power multi-node Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) sensing network at USC, kicking off the METRANS’ Fall 2019 Research Seminar Series.
Traffic monitoring is an essential task for any municipal transportation agency. However, current hardware solutions are bulky and unreliable. For the last five years, ...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Call for Session Proposals The Pacific Risk Management ‘Ohana (PRiMO) Conference Building A Resilient Pacific March 10-13th, 2020 Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawai’i www.primohui.org
PRiMO is a coalition of organizations with a role in hazard and climate risk management in the Pacific region. We recognize the value of collective action and are committed to enhancing cooperation, coordination, and collaboration to strengthen and sustain resilient island communities. ...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Adylbek Abdykalikov leads the METRANS Student Event Team and is a second-year USC Price School Master of International Public Policy and Management (IPPAM) student from Kazakhstan. Abdykalikov earned his Bachelor’s degree in International Relations at the Kazakh State University in 2012. He then began working for the Ministry of Transport and Communication at the Department of International Cooperation in Kazakhstan where he gained valuable experience and an in-depth understanding of ...
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Saturday, October 26, 2019
Written in collaboration with USC Price dual degree Planning and Public Administration student Beatris Megerdichian and USC Price Master of Planning student Samirita Dabade
On Wednesday, September 18, METRANS PSR welcomed guest speakers from LA Metro to kickstart the Fall 2019 event series. This seminar focused on careers at LA Metro, attracting many students interested in the transportation sector.
Two outstanding professionals, Shalonda Baldwin, the Interim Executive ...
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Sunday, October 20, 2019
One in a series of articles featuring PSR students and their accomplishments.
Eduardo Marino, PhD candidate in the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at University of California, Irvine (UCI), is an international student from Barcelona, Spain. Marino completed his Civil Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. He is currently in his third year of the PhD program, and expects to complete his studies in the next two years.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Complete Streets Considerations for Freight and Emergency vehicles is a guidebook for incorporating the needs of freight activities and emergency services into the design and operation of complete streets. Under the leadership of Alison Conway, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, City College of New York, the guidebook was produced by faculty, staff and students at City College of New York, City University of New York, and the New York City Department of Transportation. ...
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Wednesday, October 9, 2019
The California Planning Foundation (CPF) recently awarded the 2019-2020 CPF scholarships for outstanding planning students in the State of California. Fourteen PSR students - five from the University of Southern California (USC), five from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), three from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and one from the University of California, Davis (UCD) received scholarships, along with twenty-two students from additional California Universities. Their ...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Codi Weisz, undergraduate student at USC Viterbi School of Engineering received the 2019 Women’s Transportation Seminar – Los Angeles (WTS-LA) Ava Doner Memorial Scholarship. WTS-LA is the Los Angeles chapter of the international organization, WTS, dedicated to building the future of global transportation through advancement of women. WTS scholarships support young women aspiring a professional career in transportation. Weisz is a sophomore student studying Civil Engineering with an emphasis ...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019
This is the third in a series of articles dedicated to intern and concurrent work/school experiences - public sector, private sector and also non-profit sector. Sophia Greenberg is obtaining her Master’s degree in Urban Planning with an emphasis in Economic Development and a certificate in Real Estate Development at University of Southern California (USC), and completed her undergraduate degree in Economics with a minor in Spanish, also at USC. “I grew up in Culver City and I’m ...
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